The B.C. government is pursuing legal action against OpenAI for the role it alleges the company played in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
On Feb. 10, a shooter killed her mother and half-brother, then went to the local secondary school and killed five children, aged 12 and 13, and an educator. The 18-year-old shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.
In April, families of the victims announced they were taking OpenAI and its co-founder Sam Altman to court in California “to pursue landmark damage awards.”
On Tuesday morning, Attorney General Niki Sharma told media the province owes it to the community to prevent something like this from happening again.
“The province is preparing legal action to hold artificial intelligence company OpenAI and its decision makers accountable for their failure to notify law enforcement of the violent prompts made on its ChatGPT platform by the perpetrator prior to the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge,” Sharma said.
Tumbler Ridge is a town of about 2,400 people set in the foothills of the Rockies near B.C.’s border with Alberta.
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